The mafia snitch
– who helped to put away former acting Colombo captain Andrew Russo and
underboss Benjamin Castellazzo – faces a minimum of five years in
prison and a max of more than 30 years behind bars.

The gangster
came clean about his decades long career as a vicious hoodlum – and even
copped to joining a colleague in cutting off a dead man’s penis and
placing it in his mouth as a final humiliation.

Russo will be the
latest rat to benefit handsomely from his cooperation with federal
prosecutors in their increasingly effective war against organized crime.

A
parade of mob turncoats – from former Bonanno boss Joey Massino to
captain Richard Cantarella – have shuffled into Brooklyn federal
courtrooms in recent months to be rewarded for reneging on their omerta
oaths.

Prosecutors credit Russo with spilling critical
information about no less than 23 of his former family comrades. “Russo
has provided substantial cooperation in the government’s longstanding
and continuing investigation into the Colombo crime family,” reads the
filing.

The feds were given an inside look into the most
sensitive inner workings of the once powerful clan as Russo offered
details into their most vicious crimes and key administrative maneuvers.